Discussion

For parts to be identified, they must have boundaries that
separate them as unities.

In psychology, structuralism started with William Wundt, who sought to break
consciousness down into its constituent parts.

In anthropology, meaning seen to be produced and reproduced through
practices, phenomena and activities which act as systems of signification.

Claude Lévi-Strauss, analyzed cultural phenomena including mythology,
kinship, and food preparation. He rejected the purposeful human agent as the
motivating force in history.

In linguistics,
Ferdinand de Saussure used structuralism in his analysis of language and signs,
creating Semiotics and his idea of parole (talk) and langue
(underlying structured system). He argued that meaning is created inside
language in the difference between words.